Robert "Bob" Deschamps (born January 6, 1940) is a politician from

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. He was an Action démocratique du Québec Member of the

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for the electoral district of Saint-Maurice from 2007 to 2008. Deschamps, who has a background in education, was a teacher for 24 years after obtaining a degree at the

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and completing additional studies at

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in Charlottetown,

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, where he played for the university's hockey club. He was also a director for a

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mining exploration company for eight years. He was also a manager and football coach in the league he founded in 1965, the Ligue de football interscolaire de Mauricie, and was involved heavily in many

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associations regionally and provincially. He had been a long-life supporter of the sovereignty of Quebec and was a

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supporter and member for nearly 40 years. He unsuccessfully ran three times as a New Democratic Party candidate. His first attempt was at the provincial level in the district of Laviolette in

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. He also ran at the

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level in the district of Saint-Maurice against

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Jean Chrétien in

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and

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. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2007 with 38% of the vote.

incumbent Claude Pinard, who was running for a fourth consecutive term, finished second with 33% of the vote. Deschamps took office on April 12, 2007. In the minutes that followed his inauguration, Deschamps confirmed his intention to relocate the

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away from the downtown area, near the École Secondaire des Chutes. Deschamps's position clearly contrasts from that of the Shawinigan city government. Mayor Lise Landry and a number of city councillors want to relocate the facility between the city's two main districts: Downtown Shawinigan and Shawinigan-Sud. Deschamps was defeated in the 2008 election. He ran as an independent candidate in the district of Trois-Rivières in the

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and was defeated.

Local Politics

In 2009, Robert Deschamps ran for Mayor in Shawinigan, but later dropped from the race for health reasons. Guy Veillette, Le Nouvelliste, Deschamps se retire le coeur gros, September 25, 2009
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Electoral record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Deschamps, Robert 1940 births New Democratic Party of Quebec candidates in Quebec provincial elections New Democratic Party candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Quebec candidates for Member of Parliament Action démocratique du Québec MNAs Independent candidates in Quebec provincial elections Living people Université de Montréal alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians